The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guide \Guide\, n. [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See Guide, v. t.]
A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
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One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life; a director; a regulator.
He will be our guide, even unto death.
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Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as:
(Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
(Surgery) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(Printing) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
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(Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directing flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
--Farrow.Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar.
Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar.
Guide meridian. (Surveying) See under Meridian.
Guide pile (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to.
Guide pulley (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler.
--Knight.Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.
Wikipedia
A guide rail is device or mechanism to direct products, vehicles or other objects through a channel, conveyor, roadway or rail system.
Several types or guide rails exist and may be associated with:
- Factory or production line conveyors
- Power tools, such as table saws
- Elevator or lift shafts
- Roadways and bridges (in this context sometimes called guardrails)
- A central rail that guides the rubber tired train of a rubber tired metro
Usage examples of "guide rail".
He said nothing, but wordlessly went to work securing Braker and Yates to the guide rail while Tony held the Hampton on them.
The Humber howled up to speed, bounced her side bumpers twice on the guide rail as I swung her into a well-lit cross avenue, then settled down to outrun whatever might be chewing up the pavement behind her.
McCoy took his hand away from the guide rail, holding both hands empty before him.
Within seconds, the car levitated a few inches above its guide rail and moved away from the loading dock, floating smoothly on an electromagnetic cushion.
They walked on, keeping a gloved hand on the guide rail set into the mountain.
The frieze of horses, their heads going like hammers and the dust lifting pale and thin behind them, were framed by the guide rail and the white mine dumps beyond them.
Her free hand flailed for balance, caught the guide rail fastened to the stairwell wall more by good luck than deliberate intent.
It was askew and off to one side now, sitting astride the guide rail and resting against the sidewall.
The door registered her with the central computer and it slid back with the slightest hiss from the pneumatic guide rail.